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Jones insists weakened England can challenge for Six Nations hat-trick

18 enero 2018 18:46

Eddie Jones has rejected suggestions an England team depleted by injury and suspension is not capable of winning the Six Nations.

England have won the previous two tournaments after Eddie Jones succeeded Stuart Lancaster in November 2015.

The Australian coach is without a host of key players ahead of his side's opening match away to Italy on February 4, including banned pair Joe Marler and James Haskell and injured duo Nathan Hughes and Billy Vunipola.

"You read the papers and we might as well not turn up," Jones jokingly told journalists upon naming his squad on Thursday.

"I'm not a bookmaker, but I know I've got a squad [that's] good enough, that's going to work very hard, that's going to maximise the ability we've got and we're going to put ourselves in a position to win the Six Nations."